This section will describe the needed environment from which to launch and sustain data curation services. Many factors that precede and/or influence data curation practice are explored. Theory-based book chapters (2000-5000 words) are sought in the following areas:

· Financial and business models for paying for the costs of data curation.

· Understanding the disciplinary differences in data reuse: philosophies of sharing or not sharing amongst researchers.

Part 2: Data Curation Handbook: Procedures and Techniques.

This section will focus on practical approaches for curating data. The chapters will follow the data curation life-cycle and sequentially detail the approaches, tools and techniques used by data curators for ingesting, accessioning, describing, providing standard metadata, transforming, contextualizing, disseminating, licensing and preserving digital research data. Practical, essay-length case studies (approx. 200-1000 words) are solicited that describe a firsthand approach or tool used by the author(s). Multiple submissions by are encouraged. Possible topics include: